TRANSPORT & LOGISTICS: CROSSRAIL
“This project will bring
an estimated £42 billion
worth of benefit to
London and UK economy
through regeneration
and investment”
keeping everyone healthy and safe.
The Target Zero principles are:
•We all have the right to go home unharmed every day
•We believe that all harm is preventable
•We must all work together to achieve this
Hails describes how these principles affect him, his team
and Crossrail contractors, “When I arrived in 2012, I was in
the fortunate position that these expectations had already
been set and many of the principal contracts had already
been awarded.”
“It is important to explain the ethos of Target Zero. It
is regarded as a State of Mind. We aspire to prevent all
harm, both health and safety, and we have a firm belief
that all harm is preventable. How we achieve that is vitally
important. We have to collaborate and work with our tier
one contractors to understand what the challenges are
from their risk profiles, how they intend to meet those
challenges, and how they intend to manage that risk. By
looking collectively at innovative means of addressing that
risk, we hope to eliminate harm.”
“While that’s a very aspirational thing to say in the
construction industry, it is something we firmly believe in
and we expect our contractors to believe in it also.”
“The minimum health and safety requirements for
Crossrail were formulated on the back of the 2012 Olympics.
We took the lessons learned from their program and that
became our minimum expectation. We then enhanced that
benchmark, raising the bar higher for Crossrail contracts.
One of those requirements was that contractors must have
strong management systems in place, as you would expect
from big multi-national companies that were expected to
deliver Europe’s largest construction project.”
T
he Crossrail route will link existing Network Rail
services, from east to west, through 42 kilometres of
tunnels and new underground